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Thursday 20 July 2017
 News and commentary round up
From the Hacker News: Hacker Uses A Simple Trick to Steal $7 Million Worth of Ethereum Within 3 Minutes.[Ed: ha. This is cautionary tale. When I heard of this in passing, I thought the blockchain had been compromised but it was sloppy,sloppy security on website. Ouch. Expensive cautionary tale. Hat tip to cb who posted this item on the forum associated with this blog.]

From Zero Hedge: Ethereum Suddenly Crashes 20% Amid Chatter Of More ICO Fraud; But Goldman Sees Bitcoin Testing $3000 [Ed: this is a separate fiasco from the preceding one.]

From Bitcoin.com: 13 Japanese Exchanges Agree to Suspend Bitcoin Service on August 1 [Ed: plan is to resume on August 4.]

From the Free Beacon: Fmr. U.N. Amb. Power Emerges As Central Figure In Obama Unmasking Investigation. Congress demands answers on why Obama officials demanded classified intel that harmed Trump [Ed: expect the left media to ratchet up the Russia hysteria as noise to cover this one up.]

From CTV News: Toronto man builds park stairs for $550, irking city after $65,000 estimate

From Moon of Alabama: "Zero Day" for Violent Regime Change in Venezuela [Ed: as usual, a good overview.]

From SF Gate: Girl at lemonade stand threatened by a man who said he'd call police for lack of a business license [Ed: hat tip to Brad who assures, Don’t worry there is a happy ending.]

From the American Conservative: The Disgraceful ‘Anti-Boycott Act’ [Ed: a federal a law that would make it a felony for Americans to support the international boycott against Israel]

From Politico: Trump threatens to gut Obamacare markets. The president has repeatedly told aides and advisers that he wants to end the subsidy payments, and he has not changed his position.

From the Daily Mail: Have YOU spotted it? Russia's 'artificial star' set to light up the sky reaches orbit (but nobody seems to be able to see it)

From Zero Hedge: Seismic Shift In Syria: Trump Ends Covert Obama-era CIA Program Which Sent Arms To Jihadists [Ed: happened while everyone was talking about which dessert Trump shared withPutin at the G20.]
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